Gaming Linux^® From Scratch (Systemd Edition)

Table of Contents

• Preface

  • Foreword
  • Who Would Want to Read this Book
  • Organization

• I. Introduction

  • 1. Welcome to GLFS

    • Which Sections of the Book Do I Want?
    • Conventions Used in this Book
    • Getting the Source Packages
    • Rationale for Packages
    • Security Advisories
    • Change Log
    • Asking for Help
    • Artwork
    • Credits
    • Contact Information
    • Important Information
    • The Bash Shell Startup Files

  • 2. Multilib

    • What is Multilib?
    • Do I Need Multilib?
    • Achieving Multilib
    • Pkgconf Personalties
    • Meson Toolchain Files

• II. Shared Dependencies

  • 3. Networking

    • Connecting to the Internet
    • libtasn1-4.20.0
    • NSPR-4.37
    • SQLite-3.50.4
    • Python-3.13.7
    • NSS-3.115
    • p11-kit-0.25.5
    • make-ca-1.16.1
    • libunistring-1.3
    • libidn2-2.3.8
    • libpsl-0.21.5
    • cURL-8.15.0
    • Wget-1.25.0

  • 4. Security

    • Linux-PAM-1.7.1
    • Shadow-4.18.0
    • Systemd-257.8
    • duktape-2.7.0
    • PCRE2-10.45
    • GLib-2.84.4
    • ICU-77.1
    • libxml2-2.14.5
    • shared-mime-info-2.4
    • desktop-file-utils-0.28
    • Polkit-126

  • 5. Audio

    • ALSA
    • alsa-lib-1.2.14
    • alsa-plugins-1.2.12
    • alsa-utils-1.2.14
    • libogg-1.3.6
    • libvorbis-1.3.7
    • FLAC-1.5.0
    • Opus-1.5.2
    • Speex-1.2.1
    • libsndfile-1.2.2
    • PulseAudio-17.0

  • 6. Basic X11 Software

    • Basic Xorg-7 Software Introduction
    • util-macros-1.20.2
    • xorgproto-2024.1
    • libXau-1.0.12
    • libXdmcp-1.1.5
    • xcb-proto-1.17.0
    • libxcb-1.17.0
    • Which-2.23 and Alternatives
    • libpng-1.6.50
    • FreeType-2.13.3 - Pass 1
    • HarfBuzz-11.4.1
    • FreeType-2.13.3 - Pass 2
    • Fontconfig-2.17.1
    • Xorg Libraries
    • libxcvt-0.1.3
    • XCB Utils
    • CMake-4.1.0
    • D-Bus-1.16.2
    • libunwind-1.8.2
    • Nettle-3.10.1
    • GnuTLS-3.8.10
    • Pixman-0.46.4
    • mtdev-1.1.7
    • libevdev-1.13.4
    • libinput-1.29.0

  • 7. Wayland

    • Wayland-1.24.0
    • Wayland-Protocols-1.45

  • 8. Graphics Drivers

    • What Drivers to Install
    • GPU Kernel Options and Firmware
    • pciutils-3.14.0
    • hwdata-0.398
    • About OpenGL
    • libglvnd-1.7.0
    • Vulkan-SDK-1.4.321.0
    • Libdrm-2.4.125
    • libvdpau-1.5
    • Mako-1.3.10
    • Cython-3.1.3
    • libyaml-0.2.5
    • PyYAML-6.0.2
    • GBM from Mesa-25.1.8
    • NVIDIA EGL Libraries
    • NVIDIA-580.76.05
    • LLVM-20.1.8
    • Rustc-1.89.0
    • Cbindgen-0.29.0
    • rust-bindgen-0.72.0
    • SPIRV-LLVM-Translator-20.1.5
    • libclc-20.1.8
    • libva-2.22.0
    • ply-3.11
    • Mesa-25.1.8
    • libvdpau-va-gl-0.4.2

  • 9. X11

    • xbitmaps-1.1.3
    • Xorg Applications
    • xcursor-themes-1.0.7
    • Xorg Fonts
    • XKeyboard-Config-2.45
    • libepoxy-1.5.10
    • Xorg-Server-21.1.18
    • Xwayland-24.1.8
    • Xorg Input Drivers
    • xinit-1.4.4

  • 10. Checkpoint

    • What Now?

• III. Steam

  • 11. Steam Preliminaries

    • What is Steam?
    • Steam Dependencies

  • 12. Installing Steam Dependencies

    • Xdg-user-dirs-0.18
    • libgpg-error-1.55

  • 13. Steam

    • Steam-1.0.0.83

• IV. Wine

  • 14. Wine Preliminaries

    • What is Wine?
    • Wine Dependencies

  • 15. The MinGW-w64 Toolchain

    • What is the MinGW-w64 Toolchain?
    • MinGW-w64-headers-13.0.0
    • MinGW-w64-Binutils-2.45
    • Static MinGW-w64-GCC-15.2.0
    • MinGW-w64-13.0.0
    • MinGW-w64-GCC-15.2.0

  • 16. Miscellaneous

    • libxkbcommon-1.11.0
    • SDL2-2.32.8

  • 17. GS

    • NASM-2.16.03
    • libaom-3.12.1
    • fdk-aac-2.0.3
    • LAME-3.100
    • libvpx-1.15.2
    • x264-20250815
    • x265-4.1
    • FFmpeg-7.1.1
    • GStreamer Suite 1.26.5

  • 18. Wine

    • Wine-10.14
    • DXVK-2.7.1
    • VKD3D-Proton-2.14.1

• V. Quality of Life

  • 19. Quality of Life

    • Gamepad Support
    • Binary Support

• A. Creative Commons License

• B. The MIT License

• Glossary

• Index